Word: derailer
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...misadventure isn't likely to derail the AOL deal. As former FCC chairman Reed Hundt puts it, "Those people who might [have been led to] think AOL-Time Warner is a big, scary company already know how big and scary it is." But there was a big rush on satellite dishes in Houston last week, and a heightened sensitivity to the power of the cable companies. Officials in many cities have been looking toward Portland, Ore., which drew upon its power to approve a change in ownership of the city's cable systems to win concessions from AT&T when...
...family is not picture perfect (his brother was convicted of fraud), and according to Weisskopf and Schmidt, he "was never the hard-right ideologue later portrayed by Clinton allies." His childhood hero was John Kennedy. When Starr considered running for the Senate in Virginia, it was to derail the campaign of Oliver North, the right-wing poster boy whom he considered "a disgrace...
They and dozens of other area students joined thousands who gathered in the nation's capital in an attempt to derail yesterday's and today's meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank. Similar efforts last year resulted in the premature ending of a Seattle meeting of the World Trade Organization...
With Clinton popular and the country in good shape, the GOP has been accused of putting politics over policy - trying to derail an effective president, even if that means threatening the nation's unprecedented prosperity. This criticism could persist if Al Gore or Hillary Clinton win their respective races but still have to answer questions for their ex-boss/husband...
After Mass. Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly said Wednesday that Harvard's actions "placed a cloud" over the HPHC rehabilitation, University officials said they had no intent to derail the process...